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This one is small. In 2011, my immediate younger sister died due to negligence of almost 15hours. Could you believe all the General Hopital in Lagos failed to attend to us at midnight. We went round Lagos government hospital that night, but she later died

Her surviving son now going 8 years.

freedomchild:
Nigeria has been programmed to fail

that's the truth...

u could say that. Its a very deep issue to dissect the root of why iur system has become so rotten

SolutionMee:


Honestly, this is so touching. I have never been this touched in a while. Nigeria health care system and facility is in shamble at the moment. Many of these doctors have forgotten the Hippocratic oath they took before they became doctors. Saving lives should be their primary focus and all cases should be considered emergency to them. I can remember vividly when I was still in Nigeria. I was rushed to the hospital one day late in the night. On getting there, the nurse that we met was pregnant and was reluctant in attending to me. She later told me to come back the following day that the doctor at duty wasn't around. She told me to go and use paracetamol that I will be OK. I was almost crying. How can Nigerians be this heartless, "I said in my mind." That was the day I knew that our lives are not safe in the hands of Nigerian medical practitioners. I went home sad that day, facing the realities of life all alone. Nigerian hospitals couldn't save my life when I needed them most.

If what just happened had been in the Western world, the doctor on duty will be charge to court. A suit will be filed against him based on his own negligence. I've even seen in an Indian movie where a doctor was given 25 years imprisonment due to some petty negligence by the doctor. It was just a common surgery that was to be conducted on a minor. Due to negligence of the mother, the child ate an hour to the operation as opposed to the conventional rule of not eating 6 hours to any medical surgery. The doctor was later told by a ward nurse but because he was on call, he was carried away. They did the operation successfully but after few minutes, the food the child ate backed up to his throat and was turned into a poison. That was how they started running helter-skelter, trying to evacuate the food from his throat "something they should have done before commencing the surgery." The child later died and all effort by the doctor to bury the case in the court of law was proved abortive by his fellow doctors and the mother of the child. Though the mother caused everything. But the doctor was the one that served the jail time. If our judiciary sector is still functioning in Nigeria, the hospital should be charged to court ASAP while the family of the deceased should also hire a human right activist.

Lots of reasons your thoughts won’t work. I have been to this Luth before, even this year. The number of emergencies they get is alarming. We even queued for about 1hr 10 mins to pay for registration. I had to do lots of tests and at each stage I had lots of people before me.

So I personally think there are not enough hospitals and they are short staffed as well. It’s really pathetic what happened to this family and I don’t wish it on anyone - even on my enemies, but it’s just the situation of the Nigerian system. I am fortunate to be a lawyer, and I tell you that they will only be successful in court if they could prove that the medical personnel were idle, which is usually difficult. Someone can’t be negligent if he genuinely was attending to other emergencies.

It’s such a pity and I wish Local Governments can be given more autonomy to establish Hospitals and provide other social benefits rather than rely on State and Federal government hospitals. Nigeria really needs restructuring

PrettyCrystal:
A heartbroken man has narrated how his brother passed away at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) due to the alleged negligence of medical personnel. According to the bereaved identified as Yommy, his brother named Segun (pictured below) died at the hospital despite all the screams from him that the case was an emergency. 

He alleged that the hospital officials ignored him for hours and later attended to his brother but by that time, it was already late. His brother passed away in his arms.

Read below what the heartbroken man shared on Facebook; 

All the General Hospital in Nigeria is nothing but a dead zone center where every patient is not sure of coming back alive. Their nonchalant attitude killed my brother. We got to navy town hospital they said no facilities to treat him that we should go to Lagos university teaching hospital.(Luth) we got there around after six(6).

We were shouting emergency emergency emergency nobody answered not even the security were moved. Then I call a matron working there she was off duty but did her best to call some people on duty. Despite are call they didn't answer.  my brother was struggling for breath in held him telling him the we never plan to depart this way.

He was calling my name and other peoples name. I was shouting doctor pls nurse pls don't let my brother die. they didn't answer even people around that brought patients they said that is how they use to do.

All efforts was abortive my brother struggled for more than 5 hours. It was even inside the small shuttle bus inside the hospital compound they gave him drip. All what they requested for we gave them. It was past 8 my brother stop struggling he became weak couldnt breath again was just moving his legs.

That was when they brought their bed for us to put him Inside it was not up to 10 minutes I was asked to control myself that my brother is gone.

They killed my brother because he wasn't given attention despite having money to purchase all they requested for. My GOD will judge them all. Segun rest on and sleep well I will forever miss you. Sun re.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/09/man-dies-in-lagos-hospital-due-to-alleged-negligence-by-doctors.html

So sad, man's inhumanity to man!!!

Kingjames:
placard-carrying-quack Doctors all over that can't prescribe a mere drug for headache.

Don't blame baba for always going to UK to spend his holiday and then later stop over in his Doctors residence to pay homage

One thing you don't realize is that the colaspe of the health care system has nothing to do with the medical profession.

Rather it is complicit of the wanton socio economic decay obtainable in virtually every of fragment of Nigeria's quasi professional public service.

Nigeria's health care system is grossly malnourished. The best Nigerian health care staffs trained in Nigeria do not practice in Nigeria. They seek greener pastures (which they almost always find elsewhere abroad)

The 'leftover' medical professionals are probably the most poorly paid practitioners among their peers internationally, when you consider standing economic situations. But even more importantly, the health sector itself (hospitals, equipments, organization) is in a rot.

Nigerian doctors work with the most archaic of tools. Hospital supplies are short and the ratio of medical professionals to patients is mind boggingly stretched.

If you want to see health care how it's supposed to be done by contrastingly prolific doctors (who are the same unsurprisingly non-chalant and seemingly unskilled workers in public hospitals) visit a well funded private clinic.

famosh:
So you can't correct your fellow IPIG/PDP sycophant without insulting Buhari just so you can seem unbiased & different? Nawa!

What is this one saying?? Buharist...face front and...

imran147:
Innalillahi Wa inna illehin rahjiun
Surely we came from God
Surely unto thee we return

He’s time is up already that’s why no one could help him

Beside Nigerian hospital have too much negligence toward there patients

You're a wretched imbecilic nonentity. You just displayed the highest stupidity ever shown by a living thing. What a useless thing. I hate you for such a ridiculous comment you made. A foolish Nigerian.

Please accept my most heartfelt sympathies for your loss.... This one weak me.

Please accept my most heartfelt sympathies for your loss. This one weak me!

imran147:
Innalillahi Wa inna illehin rahjiun
Surely we came from God
Surely unto thee we return

He’s time is up already that’s why no one could help him

Beside Nigerian hospital have too much negligence toward there patients

What kind of talk is this... So it's allah will for him not to be attended to

come and ask me
I'm a living witness
despite being their student ;they showed me pepper
few hours after surgery I was wallowing in pain though still on oxygen
I couldn't talk but I was demonstrating to one of the doctors around that I'm having pain
do you know what one of the nurse said? ha what pain are ypi having, do you know you are a woman its better you bear the pain and keep quite
I was still in the theater ooo, when one of them sees that I could no longer bear the pain he now said

see if its what I'm suspecting ,let me give you 30minute then after 30minute he would think of what to do
after almost an hour hour , he came back and said you see its not what I'm suspecting cos of it was to be what he is suspecting(internal bleeding) I would have died within that 30minute he said
so he guess I'm fine that I was just be naive
lo and behold after several injections the pain did not stop
I was in pain for days
on the third day of the surgery that I tried to poo
everything that was coming out of my anus was big clotted blood which denotes internal bleeding
the consultant came and ask me to go for a scan , the report was showing massive hematoma, so he ask one of the doctor to try and drain the blood
after the consultant left, the doctor told me that I was fine that there's no blood to drain that I'm only having a psychological pain
they later requested for a C.T scan of which I did yet till today nothing was done to the clotted blood in my tummy
I have to go for evacuation at another federal hospital when I was having a persistent contraction while I was not pregnant
the blood spreads everywhere in my tommy to my pelvic
I had to stop going for the consultation so that I will not go and stab one of them someday

till today I'm still living with the swollen tommy
my tommy wasn't swollen before the surgery they gave me a deform abdomen
yet they don't care
they are so cruel

ive always said it nigerian lawyers snd doctors are overated

kingovie12:
What kind of talk is this... So it's allah will for him not to be attended to

Man if your time is not up you can’t die okay
Wether you guys like it or not
That’s the truth
If God doesn’t want him die he will survived even before getting to the hospital

Mind you if someone slept and refuse to wake up it’s not he’s time na hospital pple kill that one

When your time reach kindly bribe death with your money okay since you said no be GOd hand Dey there....

JWTheocracy1:
You're a wretched imbecilic nonentity. You just displayed the highest stupidity ever shown by a living thing. What a useless thing. I hate you for such a ridiculous comment you made. A foolish Nigerian.

kingovie12:
What kind of talk is this... So it's allah will for him not to be attended to

Man if your time is not up you can’t die okay
Wether you guys like it or not
That’s the truth
If God doesn’t want him die he will survived even before getting to the hospital

Mind you if someone slept and refuse to wake up it’s not he’s time na hospital pple kill that one

When your time reach kindly bribe death with your money okay since you said no be GOd hand Dey there....

grandstar:
His time wasn't up,

According to the words of King Solomon (Prophet Suleiman) who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes he says at

Eccl 7:17 says "Do not be excessively wicked, nor be foolish.z Why should you die before your time''

So, people can die before their time.

Normally, we should live for 70 - 80 years but we can die before our time due to time and unforeseen occurrence befalling us (Eccl 9:11)

kingovie12:
What kind of talk is this... So it's allah will for him not to be attended to

Man if your time is not up you can’t die okay
Wether you guys like it or not
That’s the truth
If God doesn’t want him dead he will survived even before getting to the hospital

Mind you if someone slept and refuse to wake up it’s not he’s time na hospital pple kill that one

When your time reach kindly bribe death with your money okay since you said no be GOd hand Dey there....

So unfortunate. Pls take heart. I had similar experience when I took my late mum to General Hospital Lagos.

RedAlert08:
Oga, it is not about funding healthcare, it's simply about attitude towards work in govt establishments. If you like spend gazillion dollars in the health sector, with lackadaisical attitude as narrated by the OP, there won't be positive result.

True. My mum was sick and was rushed to emergency clinic of NAUTH some time last month. I never knew we still have wonderful Health professionals in Nigeria. God bless NAUTH.

This is so sad

kowalsky:
One thing you don't realize is that the colaspe of the health care system has nothing to do with the medical profession.

Rather it is complicit of the wanton socio economic decay obtainable in virtually every of fragment of Nigeria's quasi professional public service.

Nigeria's health care system is grossly malnourished. The best Nigerian health care staffs trained in Nigeria do not practice in Nigeria. They seek greener pastures (which they almost always find elsewhere abroad)

The 'leftover' medical professionals are probably the most poorly paid practitioners among their peers internationally, when you consider standing economic situations. But even more importantly, the health sector itself (hospitals, equipments, organization) is in a rot.

Nigerian doctors work with the most archaic of tools. Hospital supplies are short and the ratio of medical professionals to patients is mind boggingly stretched.

If you want to see health care how it's supposed to be done by contrastingly prolific doctors (who are the same unsurprisingly non-chalant and seemingly unskilled workers in public hospitals) visit a well funded private clinic.

The last time i checked Nigeria Hospitals are run by Medical Professionals. When people do not take responsibility and keep shifting blames,solutions will not come. Doctors are the head of Health institutions and should be in the front row to fight to keep them alive. CMDs of these hospitals are they left overs medical professionals

This country is just one huge mess. Just imagine. That's why i dont like government run hospitals, especially after my own family's nasty experience when my wife and our little daughter fell ill. 'had to run to a private hospital where they were given adequate attention despite the huge bill. May his brother's soul rest in peace.

is he from outer space? every Nigerian knows that teaching hospitals are slaughter houses.

their medical personnel are butchers.

Nigerians the worst is yet to come. Doctors and nurses who are good have been traveling out of the country in large numbers due to half salary, irregular salaries, and poor working conditions the ones left behind are no longer ready to work and even more are still going. As for buhari and his Governors have killed Nigeria healthcare system

Gozzzy:
something doesn't add up. 5hrs, but he said they brought him by past 6pm and he died by past 8pm.... I'm confused.

That should be all the hours he struggled to live.

From the Naval hospital to the teaching hospital.

It's not supposed to be so.

PrettyCrystal:
A heartbroken man has narrated how his brother passed away at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) due to the alleged negligence of medical personnel. According to the bereaved identified as Yommy, his brother named Segun (pictured below) died at the hospital despite all the screams from him that the case was an emergency. 

He alleged that the hospital officials ignored him for hours and later attended to his brother but by that time, it was already late. His brother passed away in his arms.

Read below what the heartbroken man shared on Facebook; 

All the General Hospital in Nigeria is nothing but a dead zone center where every patient is not sure of coming back alive. Their nonchalant attitude killed my brother. We got to navy town hospital they said no facilities to treat him that we should go to Lagos university teaching hospital.(Luth) we got there around after six(6).

We were shouting emergency emergency emergency nobody answered not even the security were moved. Then I call a matron working there she was off duty but did her best to call some people on duty. Despite are call they didn't answer.  my brother was struggling for breath in held him telling him the we never plan to depart this way.

He was calling my name and other peoples name. I was shouting doctor pls nurse pls don't let my brother die. they didn't answer even people around that brought patients they said that is how they use to do.

All efforts was abortive my brother struggled for more than 5 hours. It was even inside the small shuttle bus inside the hospital compound they gave him drip. All what they requested for we gave them. It was past 8 my brother stop struggling he became weak couldnt breath again was just moving his legs.

That was when they brought their bed for us to put him Inside it was not up to 10 minutes I was asked to control myself that my brother is gone.

They killed my brother because he wasn't given attention despite having money to purchase all they requested for. My GOD will judge them all. Segun rest on and sleep well I will forever miss you. Sun re.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/09/man-dies-in-lagos-hospital-due-to-alleged-negligence-by-doctors.html

Get a lawyer n go to court. Fight with everything u have.

Ignoring these kind of deaths is why hospitals keep doing this same thing.

same way I lost my dad 5 months ago.... today makes it exactly 5 months he died.

My advise...

I know private hospitals are expensive.

If for any reason you have a medical emergency especially at an unreasonable hour, please visit a good private hospital around you first (if you can afford it or can try). Life is too precious and some of this general hospitals might not act very quickly in cases of emergency.

When the patient is stable in the private or can no longer afford the bill, you can then move to or ask to be referred a government owned hospital.

May God comfort this family and protect us all. Amen.

So painful.

That same bus is what I will use to go and buy 200liters of petrol. Will empty it at the reception. and light everything up

Well, sorry about the loss of your loved brother.
But most times people don't always give honest accounts on issue like this for two reasons: to blackmail/ vituperate ; to garner sympathy.
Why most patients die in such critical condition, most times, is because they don't present at the hospital in a good time. The patients condition must have really gone bad before they are brought , and only little or nothing could be done at such cases.
People have forgotten that the facilities in most our tertiary health institutions are overstretched due to overpopulation.
Just last Tuesday I was in the same Accident and emergency in LUTH when a young lady was brought from Navy Hospital on account of difficulty to breathe following some injury sustained on a road traffic accident 4 days prior to presentation. This patient was kept in Navy hospital for more than 3 days without brain MRI, to at least rule out brain injury. But when the patient was in respiratory distress, she was rushed down to LUTH. She was promptly attended to , admitted, and while still taking various samples for laboratory investigations, the patient passed on. I'm sure the relatives might as well be telling people that LUTH did not handle the patient well.
Bottom line: the facilities in private institutions are overstretched and might not go round, most times, even in emergency cases; and people should bring their ill relatives to the hospital early enough to allow meaningful medico-surgical interventions.

PrettyCrystal:
A heartbroken man has narrated how his brother passed away at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) due to the alleged negligence of medical personnel. According to the bereaved identified as Yommy, his brother named Segun (pictured below) died at the hospital despite all the screams from him that the case was an emergency. 

He alleged that the hospital officials ignored him for hours and later attended to his brother but by that time, it was already late. His brother passed away in his arms.

Read below what the heartbroken man shared on Facebook; 

All the General Hospital in Nigeria is nothing but a dead zone center where every patient is not sure of coming back alive. Their nonchalant attitude killed my brother. We got to navy town hospital they said no facilities to treat him that we should go to Lagos university teaching hospital.(Luth) we got there around after six(6).

We were shouting emergency emergency emergency nobody answered not even the security were moved. Then I call a matron working there she was off duty but did her best to call some people on duty. Despite are call they didn't answer.  my brother was struggling for breath in held him telling him the we never plan to depart this way.

He was calling my name and other peoples name. I was shouting doctor pls nurse pls don't let my brother die. they didn't answer even people around that brought patients they said that is how they use to do.

All efforts was abortive my brother struggled for more than 5 hours. It was even inside the small shuttle bus inside the hospital compound they gave him drip. All what they requested for we gave them. It was past 8 my brother stop struggling he became weak couldnt breath again was just moving his legs.

That was when they brought their bed for us to put him Inside it was not up to 10 minutes I was asked to control myself that my brother is gone.

They killed my brother because he wasn't given attention despite having money to purchase all they requested for. My GOD will judge them all. Segun rest on and sleep well I will forever miss you. Sun re.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/09/man-dies-in-lagos-hospital-due-to-alleged-negligence-by-doctors.html

Well, sorry about the loss of your loved brother.
But most times people don't always give honest accounts on issue like this for two reasons: to blackmail/ vituperate ; to garner sympathy.
Why most patients die in such critical condition, most times, is because they don't present at the hospital in a good time. The patients condition must have really gone bad before they are brought , and only little or nothing could be done at such cases.
People have forgotten that the facilities in most our tertiary health institutions are overstretched due to overpopulation.
Just last Tuesday I was in the same Accident and emergency in LUTH when a young lady was brought from Navy Hospital on account of difficulty to breathe following some injury sustained on a road traffic accident 4 days prior to presentation. This patient was kept in Navy hospital for more than 3 days without brain MRI, to at least rule out brain injury. But when the patient was in respiratory distress, she was rushed down to LUTH. She was promptly attended to , admitted, and while still taking various samples for laboratory investigations, the patient passed on. I'm sure the relatives might as well be telling people that LUTH did not handle the patient well.
Bottom line: the facilities in private institutions are overstretched and might not go round, most times, even in emergency cases; and people should bring their ill relatives to the hospital early enough to allow meaningful medico-surgical interventions.

SolutionMee:


Honestly, this is so touching. I have never been this touched in a while. Nigeria health care system and facility is in shamble at the moment. Many of these doctors have forgotten the Hippocratic oath they took before they became doctors. Saving lives should be their primary focus and all cases should be considered emergency to them. I can remember vividly when I was still in Nigeria. I was rushed to the hospital one day late in the night. On getting there, the nurse that we met was pregnant and was reluctant in attending to me. She later told me to come back the following day that the doctor at duty wasn't around. She told me to go and use paracetamol that I will be OK. I was almost crying. How can Nigerians be this heartless, "I said in my mind." That was the day I knew that our lives are not safe in the hands of Nigerian medical practitioners. I went home sad that day, facing the realities of life all alone. Nigerian hospitals couldn't save my life when I needed them most.

If what just happened had been in the Western world, the doctor on duty will be charge to court. A suit will be filed against him based on his own negligence. I've even seen in an Indian movie where a doctor was given 25 years imprisonment due to some petty negligence by the doctor. It was just a common surgery that was to be conducted on a minor. Due to negligence of the mother, the child ate an hour to the operation as opposed to the conventional rule of not eating 6 hours to any medical surgery. The doctor was later told by a ward nurse but because he was on call, he was carried away. They did the operation successfully but after few minutes, the food the child ate backed up to his throat and was turned into a poison. That was how they started running helter-skelter, trying to evacuate the food from his throat "something they should have done before commencing the surgery." The child later died and all effort by the doctor to bury the case in the court of law was proved abortive by his fellow doctors and the mother of the child. Though the mother caused everything. But the doctor was the one that served the jail time. If our judiciary sector is still functioning in Nigeria, the hospital should be charged to court ASAP while the family of the deceased should also hire a human right activist.

Well, sorry about the loss of your loved brother.
But most times people don't always give honest accounts on issue like this for two reasons: to blackmail/ vituperate ; to garner sympathy.
Why most patients die in such critical condition, most times, is because they don't present at the hospital in a good time. The patients condition must have really gone bad before they are brought , and only little or nothing could be done at such cases.
People have forgotten that the facilities in most our tertiary health institutions are overstretched due to overpopulation.
Just last Tuesday I was in the same Accident and emergency in LUTH when a young lady was brought from Navy Hospital on account of difficulty to breathe following some injury sustained on a road traffic accident 4 days prior to presentation. This patient was kept in Navy hospital for more than 3 days without brain MRI, to at least rule out brain injury. But when the patient was in respiratory distress, she was rushed down to LUTH. She was promptly attended to , admitted, and while still taking various samples for laboratory investigations, the patient passed on. I'm sure the relatives might as well be telling people that LUTH did not handle the patient well.
Bottom line: the facilities in private institutions are overstretched and might not go round, most times, even in emergency cases; and people should bring their ill relatives to the hospital early enough to allow meaningful medico-surgical interventions.

Venerable612:
Lots of reasons your thoughts won’t work. I have been to this Luth before, even this year. The number of emergencies they get is alarming. We even queued for about 1hr 10 mins to pay for registration. I had to do lots of tests and at each stage I had lots of people before me.

So I personally think there are not enough hospitals and they are short staffed as well. It’s really pathetic what happened to this family and I don’t wish it on anyone - even on my enemies, but it’s just the situation of the Nigerian system. I am fortunate to be a lawyer, and I tell you that they will only be successful in court if they could prove that the medical personnel were idle, which is usually difficult. Someone can’t be negligent if he genuinely was attending to other emergencies.

It’s such a pity and I wish Local Governments can be given more autonomy to establish Hospitals and provide other social benefits rather than rely on State and Federal government hospitals. Nigeria really needs restructuring

You're so on point.

But most times people don't always give honest accounts on issue like this for two reasons: to blackmail/ vituperate ; to garner sympathy.
Why most patients die in such critical condition, most times, is because they don't present at the hospital in a good time. The patients condition must have really gone bad before they are brought , and only little or nothing could be done at such cases.
People have forgotten that the facilities in most our tertiary health institutions are overstretched due to overpopulation.
Just last Tuesday I was in the same Accident and emergency in LUTH when a young lady was brought from Navy Hospital on account of difficulty to breathe following some injury sustained on a road traffic accident 4 days prior to presentation. This patient was kept in Navy hospital for more than 3 days without brain MRI, to at least rule out brain injury. But when the patient was in respiratory distress, she was rushed down to LUTH. She was promptly attended to , admitted, and while still taking various samples for laboratory investigations, the patient passed on. I'm sure the relatives might as well be telling people that LUTH did not handle the patient well.
Bottom line: the facilities in private institutions are overstretched and might not go round, most times, even in emergency cases; and people should bring their ill relatives to the hospital early enough to allow meaningful medico-surgical interventions.

WHEN NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT STARTS TAKING HEALTH SECTOR SERIOUS THEN ALL THESE SHITS WILL STOP! IT'S AS SIMPLE AS ABC!